[erlang-questions] how to better organize code for a website

[Vanshdeep Singh]

Hey,
I think you can use cowboy middleware
https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/tree/master/examples/markdown_middleware

or you can also use on_request option in cowboy:start_http()


Regards,
Vansh

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:33 PM, avinash D'silva <evnix.com@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am using cowboy+cowboy_session for building websites.
>
> each route has something similar as shown below:
>
>
> -module(get_pageX).
> -behaviour(cowboy_http_handler).
>
> -export([init/3]).
> -export([handle/2]).
> -export([terminate/3]).
>
> -record(state, {
> }).
>
> init(_, Req, _Opts) ->
> {ok, Req, #state{}}.
>
> handle(Req, State=#state{}) ->
>
>
>
>       case  cowboy_session:get("loggedin",  Req) of
>
>          true ->
>                        #do something here
>
>           _ ->
>                     #not logged in.
>
>        end,
>
>
>
> {ok, ReqFinal} = cowboy_req:reply(200,
> [{<<"content-type">>, <<"text/html">>}],
>         <<"Some response">>,
>           Req),
>
> {ok, ReqFinal, State}.
>
> terminate(_Reason, _Req, _State) ->
> ok.
>
>
> The above CASE(code) is repeated for every route to check if the user is
> logged in, is there a better way to organize this?
>
> what I am looking for is a way to check if the user is logged in and if
> not, redirect to login route.
>
>
> PS: I am new to Erlang
>
>
> Regards,
> Avinash D' Silva
>
>
>
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